Wednesday Nov 11 | Slog
Zia Mohajerjasbi and Malik Hassan Sayeed
One more word about Zia , this year's recipient of the Genius Award for film: It's really useful to compare Zia's growing body of work to that of Malik Hassan Sayeed , the cinematographer for Hype William's only feature, Belly , and two of Spike Lee's best films, Girl 6 and Clockers - he also did second unit work on Gattaca and Eyes Wide Shut .
Hailed in the fall of 1998 as Hollywood's next "It" girl, complete with a saucy Vanity Fair cover, Gretchen Mol's status was promptly changed to "Not It" Girl after her much hyped breakout film "Rounders" underperformed at the box office.
Movies and Events) Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt play mother-daughter scam artists on the prowl for gullible zillionaires in Florida.
Cosmetics Firm Files Lawsuit Against Naomi Campbel
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Suzan-Lori Parks Is Coming to Tacoma
She studied writing with James Baldwin. She wrote Fucking A , The Death of the Last Black Man in the Entire World , and won a Pulitzer for Topdog/Underdog . She wrote Girl 6 for Spike Lee and won a MacArthur Genius Grant.
With his film 'adaptation' of Stew's rock musical, Spike Lee explores the Obama phenomenon and what it means to pass for black.
The view | 20 years on, you can still Do the Right Thing
Two decades after it opened in a sweltering mid-summer, Spike Lee's masterpiece will still bring you out in a sweat Feel the heat a John Turturro and Spike Lee in Do the Right Thing.
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